The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

870. STANFORD, JOAN. My House is Made of Time. Francestown, New Hampshire: Golden
Quill Press, (1979). First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in a rubbed dust jacket with a few small
tears, some heavy abrasions. Inscribed by the poet to Mrs. Bullock, and with an ALS laid in. $25
871. STEPHENS, JAMES. Songs from the Clay. London: Macmillan, 1915. First edition. 8vo,
blue cloth. Endsheets offset, extemities a bit rubbed, near fine. $50
872. STEPHENS, JAMES. Green Branches. Dublin: Maunsel & Company, 1916. First edition.
8vo, original printed brown wrappers. Slight vertical crease, else fine, in custom chemise.
One of 500 numbered copies, the entire edition. A superb presentation copy, inscribed by
Stephens to John Drinkwater with a verse quote. Drinkwater’s leather booklabel is affixed to
the pastedown of the chemise. Beneath this (and overlapping the discreetly place bookpate of
a subsequent owner) is a tipped-on autograph letter signed by Stephens to Oliver St. John
Gogarty, written on Drinkwater’s behalf as a letter of introduction. A nice association copy
of an uncommon item. $500
ONE OF 25 ON JAPAN VELLUM
873. STEPHENS, JAMES. Little Things. Freelands: Privately Printed, 1924. First edition. 8vo,
cloth-backed boards. Small booklabel of Frederick Spiegelberg; small strip of darkening to
upper edge of rear board, else fine in original acetate wrapper and custom slipcase. One of
only 25 copies on Japan Vellum. With a tipped-in etching signed by Power O’Malley, and
specially inscribed by Stephens: “Cropped, confined and / coffined in / Cage of cowardice -
and sin, / Slave! who freeman / might ‘a ‘bin, James Stephens, Dublin May, 1924,” as issued.
$1,250
his rarest book
874. STEVENS, WALLACE. Owl’s Clover. New York: The Alcestis Press, (1936). First edition.
Large 8vo, original printed orange wrappers. Spine very slightly darkened, else fine, bright
and crisp in the original cardboard slipcase, which is broken (as were all of them) and
missing a few pieces; slipcase lightly sunned along edges. One of 85 numbered copies on
Strathmore permanent all-rag paper, signed by Stevens (there were an additional 20 copies
on Didot handmade paper, hors commerce). A lovely copy of Stevens’s rarest book and,
indeed, one of the rarest books of modern poetry. $15,000
875. STEVENS, WALLACE. The Man With the Blue Guitar & Other Poems. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First edition. Small 8vo, yellow cloth. Covers a bit soiled; spine very
slightly darkened, few marks, without dust jacket. $175
876. STEVENS, WALLACE. The Relations Between Poetry and Painting. New York: The
Museum of Modern Art, (1951). First edition. 4to, 10pp. printed wrappers. Light rumpling
and few tiny nicks to edges. $150
877. STILL, JAMES. Hounds on the Mountain. New York: Viking Press, 1937. First edition.
8vo, original straw and green cloth. Slight dampstain at front edge, else fine in a lightly
nicked and marked but bright dust jacket. The Kentucky poet’s first book, one of 750
numbered copies, signed by Still on the front free endpaper. $250
878. STODDARD, HOPE. The Curve of Time. New York: Vantage Press, (1975). First edition.
8vo, cloth. Fine in a very lightly used dust jacket. Inscribed on the half title page: “For Mary
[sic] Bullock — because it has a ‘Foreword’ by John Hall Wheelock, and because we are sort
of in ‘The Curve of Time’ together - Hope Stoddard, May 1978.” $30
879. STUART, JESSE. Harvest of Youth. Berea, Kentucky: The Council of the Southern
Mountains, Inc., (1964). Second edition. 12mo, wrappers. Edges slightly rubbed, else fine. A
reproduction of Stuart’s first book, originally published in Oklahoma in 1930. With a lengthy
inscription: “To Marie Bullock, who has done so much for poetry and who is still doing it.
Greetings and best wishes - Jesse Stuart, Dec. 19th 1964. P.S.this one, my first published
book, was the beginning of a dream. This was published 35 years ago, four years before Man
With a Bull-Tongue Plow — these poems written in High School at the steel mills and in the
army barracks and in college. This book seems far away and long ago for me to be signing it
now.” $250